tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88836799732163846392018-03-20T01:00:01.092+11:00SPOOKYWEATHERKey Issues and Information Appearing in the Alternative Media. The Truth about 911, Corruption, War, the Economy - Real News and Analysis in Opposition to the Mainstream Propaganda.SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.comBlogger16321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-9904889081986787812018-03-20T01:00:00.000+11:002018-03-20T01:00:01.116+11:00The Neocon Full Court Press For War Is Here<br /><em>The events of the past two weeks have been stunning.&nbsp; &nbsp;Since Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled new ‘doomsday’ weapon systems at his State of the Union address, the West has gone completely bonkers.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>In the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, <strong>“I simply don’t have any normal terms left to describe all this,”</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-14/britain-expel-russian-diplomats-after-midnight-deadline-expires-without-moscow"><em>With the U.K.&nbsp;expelling Russian diplomats&nbsp;</em></a><em>over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last week, the push to isolate Russia and create conditions for a World War is here.</em><br /><em></em><br /><strong><em>The questions are Who is behind this?&nbsp; And Why?</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><em>Theresa May’s response is a joke.&nbsp; This is a woman who can’t stand up to EU shakedown artists over the mildest of disagreements in Brexit talks but can grandstand to high heaven over an incident with no evidence of Russian action.</em><br /><em></em><br /><strong><em>This situation is straight out of the neoconservative play book, creating a horrific incident and rushing a government into a confrontation and major policy decision.</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><em>And these are happening all over the world right now.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>If you look at the circumstances of Skripal’s associations in light of the collapsing Russia-Gate story in the U.S., the Who?&nbsp; becomes obvious.&nbsp; As </em><a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/spy-posions-spy-and-the-anti-trump-campaign.html"><em>Moon of Alabama first pointed out</em></a><em>, <strong>Skripal was an associate of both Pablo Miller and Christopher Steele, both former MI-6 agents working for <a href="https://russia-insider.com/en/who-benefits-did-western-intelligence-agencies-poison-skripal/ri22772">Orbis Business Intelligence.</a></strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><em>What motive would the Russians have for taking out Skripal in such a sloppy manner on the eve of Presidential elections?</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>They wouldn’t.&nbsp; &nbsp;In the same way that the Assad government had everything to lose last April over the chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikoun, Russia has nothing to gain by killing Skripal and his daughter today.</em><br /><em></em><br /><strong><em>But, if Skripal was in the position to corroborate the worst fears about the Dossier, then it makes sense to ties up loose ends.</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><u><strong><em>This is a false flag.&nbsp; It’s far more plausible than the drivel Theresa May peddled to Parliament.</em></strong></u><br /><strong><u><em></em></u></strong><br /><em>Anyone with three brain cells to rub together knows this in their heart of hearts.&nbsp; So, why play coy?</em><br /><em>Answer these questions.&nbsp;<strong> Where is Christopher Steele?&nbsp; Why hasn’t he testified?&nbsp; If he refuses, why isn’t he being hounded by the media to answer questions about his Trump Dossier?</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><em>Now ask the more salient question, who benefits from this?&nbsp; Not Russia.&nbsp; Not the U.K. people.&nbsp; Not Europe.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em><strong>Look.&nbsp; The neocons are cornered.&nbsp;</strong> All of their major pushes to destroy Russia and Iran and control central Asia are collapsing.&nbsp; The EU is fast approaching a political crisis.&nbsp; The U.K. is still a loyal subject but the White House has a cancer at its center, Donald Trump. The window has nearly closed on regime change in Russia.&nbsp; In effect, it’s now or never.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Review my recent articles on this subject. <strong>There is a throughline if you are willing to see it and it’s quite clear</strong>.</em><br /><blockquote><em><strong>Point #1:&nbsp; Trump is winning.&nbsp;</strong> He won on taxes.&nbsp; He won on DACA. He won on Russia-Gate. He won on NAFTA and tariffs.&nbsp; He beat Gary Cohn and Goldman-Sachs.&nbsp; He fired Tillerson who looks more and more like a conventional neocon plant with every review of his record.&nbsp; He’s meeting with North Korea.&nbsp;</em></blockquote><blockquote><em><strong>Point #2: Putin is winning.&nbsp;</strong> U.S.-backed opposition </em><a href="https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-march-13-2018-us-officially-threatens-to-strike-syrian-army/"><em>in Syria is collapsing</em></a><em>.&nbsp; </em><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/EU-Cant-Extend-Gas-Market-Regulation-To-Nord-Stream-2.html"><em>Nordstream 2 is going through.</em></a><em>&nbsp; </em><a href="http://www.argusmedia.com/news/article/?id=1636899"><em>Ukraine will freeze to death</em></a><em>.&nbsp; China buys their oil and gas, </em><a href="http://www.mining.com/russia-china-work-joint-uranium-mining-project/"><em>invests in their Uranium</em></a><em> and oil industries.&nbsp; </em><a href="https://sputniknews.com/asia/201712231060262185-russia-afghanistan-taliban-dialogue-opposition/"><em>He’s winning the diplomatic war in Afghanistan</em></a><em>. He’s put Netanyahu on a leash.</em></blockquote><em><strong>These two men are the vanguard standing against the American/European globalist empire.&nbsp; </strong>The Skripal poisoning was intended to be sloppy.&nbsp; It was a perfectly executed inept operation, intended to move the emotional needle and direct British frustration outward.</em><br /><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-15/neocon-full-court-press-war-here">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-15/neocon-full-court-press-war-here</a><br /><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 20th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-51267385500219779052018-03-20T00:30:00.001+11:002018-03-20T00:30:23.420+11:00Tommy Meets: Sargon of Akkad<br /><em>Last week I met Sargon of Akkad to discuss his work -&nbsp;Tommy Robinson</em>.<br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zumq1U7NprU" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 20th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-927938374093582072018-03-20T00:20:00.000+11:002018-03-20T00:20:17.829+11:00Peak Decadence: The WEST & The Fate of EMPIRE - Black Pigeon<br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Qud8cWUaSs" width="450"></iframe> <br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 20th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-39013893327355434582018-03-20T00:00:00.000+11:002018-03-20T00:00:34.811+11:00Heavy Snows Across all Continents in the Northern Hemisphere, Media Silent (Adapt 2030)<br /><em>Heavy snows are set for Asia, Europe, N.America and even Morocco and Northern Africa. Literally every continent in the Northern Hemisphere will see deep, out of season record breaking snows. Temperatures will plummet across many grain growing regions from Europe to Central Asia. This is strange, but the media wont touch the connected snow events. The Grand Solar Minimum is intensifying, and now the planting seasons are being affected.</em> <br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HB_N97tvmyA" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 20th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-20036802190361038852018-03-19T01:30:00.000+11:002018-03-19T01:30:34.390+11:00How Many Politicians Can You Buy with $6.3 Billion Dollars?<br /><em>Grant Smith, the author of Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, reveals the revenue of the Israeli lobby’s will reach $6.3 billion in 2020,&nbsp;with 17,000 employees and 414,000 volunteers! (Please re-read that statement.) The purpose of the lobby is to influence the US government to serve its foreign-policy objectives and fund its military.</em><br /><div><em>[It is understandable that the Israel government would desire this outcome, but it is unfortunate that the Israel lobby seeks to label those who criticize this relationship as "Anti-Semitic”. That is like saying anyone who criticizes US foreign policy or monetary policy is anti-American.</em></div><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SDx2gOzcclY" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-38981705887868682622018-03-19T00:30:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:30:10.210+11:00Neocon Specter of John Bolton Looms Over Trump White House (Wayne Madsen)<br /><em>There have been multiple reports that <strong>President Donald Trump</strong> is unhappy with his National Security Adviser, <strong>Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster</strong>. As rumors increased about a McMaster departure so, too, did speculation that George W. Bush’s never-confirmed ambassador to the United Nations, the arch-neoconservative <strong>John Bolton</strong>, might be named as McMaster’s replacement. Bolton has reportedly been seen at the White House on several occasions briefing Trump and other high-level officials.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>John Bolton as National Security Adviser, with<strong> Nikki Haley</strong> in Bolton’s old job at the U.N. and fundamentalist Christian dominionist <strong>Mike Pompeo</strong> moving from CIA director to replace <strong>Rex Tillerson</strong> as Secretary of State, means that the neocons — never happy with the prospects of a Trump administration – will, once again, be in the driver’s seat of American foreign policy after a nine-year hiatus. Bolton’s tenure at the U.N. was punctuated by his own undiplomatic outbursts, as well as those of his spokesman, <strong>Richard Grenell,</strong> Trump’s nominee to be US ambassador to Germany. Bolton strenuously pushed the neocon foreign policy line, as spelled out in the charter for the movement founded in 1997, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Bolton is a staunch interventionist, which would appear at odds with the non-entanglement foreign policy espoused by Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. However, as Trump entered his second year in office, it was apparent that one branch of the neocons, the most hawkish element and one linked to the Christian fundamentalist wing of the Republican Party, had captured control of the foreign policy levers of the Trump White House. Bolton has called for the US to declare war on Iran and North Korea and he has advocated for a US troop deployment to Syria to combat the forces of <strong>President Bashar al-Assad.</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><em>Bolton also favors scrapping the Iran P5+1 nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Bolton’s international views are no different than those of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a camaraderie Bolton shares with Trump.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The mere fact that Bolton has been a recent frequent guest at the Trump White House and that Trump reportedly values Bolton’s advice, is a threat to global peace.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>On June 29, 2017, long after Trump sought Bolton’s advice, the former ersatz US ambassador to the UN wrote the following neocon screed for Fox News:</em><br /><blockquote><em>“There are signs the Assad government may be planning another chemical attack. American pilots have struck forces threatening our allies and shot down a Syrian plane and Iranian-made drones. The probability of direct military confrontation between the US and Russia has risen . . . Instead of reflexively repeating President Obama’s errors, the Trump administration should undertake an ‘agonizing reappraisal,’ in the style of John Foster Dulles, to avoid squandering the victory on the ground . . . In Syria, Kurdish forces fighting ISIS [Islamic State] are linked to the Marxist PKK in Turkey. They pose a real threat to Turkey’s territorial integrity.”</em></blockquote><em>Bolton wants the United States to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and supports Trump’s backing of the Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates embargo against Qatar as punishment for its ties to both the Brotherhood and Iran. Bolton also wants added to the US terrorist list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Bolton is on record as favoring the creation of a new “secular” Sunni state in Iraq that would be bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. The new Sunni state, in Bolton’s view, would stymie the creation of a Shi’a arc of control extending from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>On the issue of Palestine, Bolton has demanded the abolishment of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which administers aid programs for Palestinian refugees. In May 2017, before accepting the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University in Jerusalem, Bolton told The Jerusalem Post that the “two-state solution” of Israel and an independent Palestinian state should be abandoned, Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority disbanded, Gaza given to Egypt, and the West Bank divided between Israel and Jordan. Bolton cynically said he believes in a “three-state solution” with Israel, Egypt, and Jordan taking control of current Palestinian territory. While representing the Bush administration at the U.N., Bolton and his chief adviser Grenell were known for coordinating all of America’s votes on Middle Eastern matters with the Israeli delegation.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Bolton’s world view is to turn the clock back to the 1950s and the “containment” policy advanced by Secretary of State Dulles. In the 1950s, “containment” meant containing the Soviet Union. For Bolton, containment now applies to boxing in Iran, joining Turkey in defeating the Syrian Kurds because Bolton believes they are linked to a “Marxist” Kurdish party in Turkey, and seeking the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria. That Bolton has gotten the ear of Trump, whose world view is a mile wide and a half-inch deep, should trouble the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Bolton’s neocon rhetoric on NATO is no less alarming. He wants membership in NATO fast-tracked for Ukraine and Georgia. Bolton as Trump’s national security adviser would help usher into the Trump White House Bolton’s fellow neocons ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, where Bolton enjoys a senior fellowship. Bolton favored US military action to prevent to retrocession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. Bolton’s appointment as Trump’s national security adviser would avoid US Senate confirmation, which, for Trump, would mean no contentious Senate floor battle with such anti-Bolton Republicans as Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>In yet another hearkening back to the days of Dulles, Bolton has promoted an updated version of the discredited “domino theory” for the Western Hemisphere. <strong>President Ronald Reagan</strong> tried to convince the American public that if the Sandinista government was permitted to take root in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and soon, Mexico, would fall to the Communists. Reagan warned that the Communists could then take over the US-Mexican border town of Harlingen, Texas because it was two-day’s driving time from Nicaragua. Bolton served in the Reagan State Department alongside such neocons as Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and the person behind Reagan’s “Communists in Harlingen” nonsense. It was also a so-called “domino theory” that was promoted by Bolton’s hero, Dulles, and his Cold War successors as Secretary of State to defend US military intervention in Southeast Asia to prevent Communism from spreading from China and North Vietnam to Thailand, Malaysia, and, eventually, even Sydney, Australia and Honolulu, Hawaii.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Bolton views the instability in Venezuela as a prelude for such anarchy spreading to Colombia and throughout South and Central America. Bolton believes that Cuba and Nicaragua are working hand-in-glove with Venezuela to destabilize Latin America and the Caribbean. Bolton opposed the normalization of US relations with Cuba and he supports Trump’s downgrading of those ties. Of course, Bolton fails to mention that it was under the Bush administration that repeated US attempts to destabilize Venezuela began and they never ceased. Bolton would rather see Venezuela fall under the control of a right-wing autocrat, such as those who gained power in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile from progressive presidents.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Bolton actually believes Iran is exploiting the political turmoil in Venezuela to gain access to the country’s uranium deposits. He also is convinced that Hezbollah has established a drug-running network in Latin America. Bolton has called on Trump to reassert the arcane Monroe Doctrine – proclaiming the Western Hemisphere as America’s domain – because of “Russian meddling” in Latin America. Bolton’s predilection for such conspiracy theories, while welcomed and highly sought in Republican Party cuckoo land, are not the product of sober intelligence analysis of world events. John Bolton, a dangerous madman, certainly has no place in any White House, particularly one that is already led by someone who is mentally unhinged.</em><br /><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/neocon-specter-of-john-bolton-looms-over-trump-white-house/5632383">https://www.globalresearch.ca/neocon-specter-of-john-bolton-looms-over-trump-white-house/5632383</a><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-46357564898557409882018-03-19T00:27:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:27:16.821+11:00'Skripal Case is a Carefully-Constructed Drama' - John Pilger <br /><em>Russia-UK relations plunge amid row over the poisoning of a former spy. Award-winning journalist John Pilger joins RT to discuss this issue.</em><br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dxRiG8vRRBk" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />There's no motive to attempt this assassination right before the Russian election, after there had been a successful spy swap (one does not kill off swapped spies), and before the World Cup. <br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Related:</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong><em>UK accuses Russia of Skripal incident but they had cases of lying in the past – OPCW representative</em></strong><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mbj-3XpQ5fg" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-81034588808551964032018-03-19T00:25:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:25:14.982+11:00SESSIONS FIRES ANDREW MCCABE BEFORE CLINTON DOJ AND FBI PROBE INDICTMENTS (HA Goodman)<br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SDLqrc9xgZA" width="450"></iframe><br /><br /><strong>Related:</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong><em>FBI MCCABE FACING POSSIBLE CHARGES FOR LYING ABOUT DOSSIER, INSURANCE POLICY, MEDIA LEAKS</em></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nbXgwCiQ0zQ" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-91688262282643347322018-03-19T00:20:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:20:29.583+11:00Meet the Lord asking Parliament "Can we talk about Islam?" <br /><em>Lord Pearson is a life peer who has stood up many times in the House of Lords to question the government on its policies and attitudes towards Islam.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>This week he stood up to ask the government about their inaction on Muslim grooming gangs and to ask "can we talk about Islam in the UK?" The reaction from other Lords was to sneer and jeer at him and to refuse to even look at how the Quran may be linked to the crimes prevalent within the Islamic community.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>So I decided to sit down with Lord Pearson to find out what it's like to be a lone voice within Parliament and what needs to be done to stop the UK from heading down the dangerous road to riots.</em><br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5bjks3fmajM" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-7504449560891011232018-03-19T00:15:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:15:06.949+11:00Where is the Gutless Media as Freedom of Speech Disappears? - The David Icke Dot-Connector Videocast <br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i-ubgp5q6Dw" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-85533992267872810992018-03-19T00:05:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:05:29.227+11:00Derivatives – A Recipe For Disaster & Systemic Collapse<br /><em>Gambling is according to Wikipedia the wagering of money (or something of value) on an event with an uncertain outcome. Three elements are required for gambling, Consideration, chance, and prize. Thus, you make a bet and if you are lucky you win a prize but you can also lose it all. Gambling has been around for thousands of years and maybe longer. The first 6-sided dice dates back 3000 years. Eventually gambling became more organised as casinos were established. The first well known casino was set up in Venice in the early 1600s.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Casino means a small house and the house was the banker. The odds were naturally always in favour of the house and that has not changed for centuries. In the last 100 years, the bankers or the House have made fortunes and especially in the last 25 years as market manipulation has taken massive proportions.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Over the last 100 years, governments and central bankers have made the investment markets into a casino with only winners which primarily have been the bankers themselves.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>DERIVATIVES – THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS</em><br /><em></em><br /><em><strong>Central and commercial bankers have created the most perfect Casino model, a model where the banker is the winner every time.</strong>&nbsp;Firstly, the banker issues the money with the help of infinite leverage. Then he sets the conditions – interest rates, fees, terms etc. To further improve his odds, the banker also manipulates markets so that they are always in his favour.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The most perfect market from the bankers’ point of view is the derivative market. This is the biggest financial market in the world. It consists primarily of unregulated Over the Counter (OTC) instruments. A derivative is an instrument which derives its value from underlying assets such as stocks, stock indices, bonds, foreign exchange, gold, silver etc.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em><strong>Derivatives is the biggest money spinner of the financial system and has made many bankers very wealthy.</strong>&nbsp;The system is totally skewed against the buyers of the derivatives. Prices are set so that the issuer of the derivative cashes in virtually every time. Prices are always set for the bank to collect 100% of the premium and never pay out. As maturity of a derivative in the money approaches, the bank will do its utmost to manipulate the price to make the derivative worthless.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It is important to understand that the value of a derivative is derived from underlying assets but there is absolutely noting backing a derivative except for the credit standing of the issuer.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>GOLD AT $1.4 MILLION PER OZ TO COVER DERIVATIVE FAILURE</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Total derivatives outstanding is around $1.5 trillion. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reports a figure of $500 trillion. But that figure is not credible since it was adjusted some years ago after netting off a major part of the gross exposure. The gross derivative exposure is 1070x central bank gold. So if central banks needed to cover an implosion of the derivative market with gold, the gold price would increase over 1,000 fold from here to $1.4 million. This might not seem a plausible price but we must remember that gold reached 100 trillion Marks during the Weimar Republic and is now in Venezuela 53 million Bolivars. (The black market price is 370 million bolivars). As global credit markets implode and money printing starts in earnest, a $1.4 million gold price might be much too low.</em><br /><a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/derivatives-a-recipe-for-disaster-systemic-collapse/">http://investmentwatchblog.com/derivatives-a-recipe-for-disaster-systemic-collapse/</a><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-11356615466020472782018-03-19T00:00:00.000+11:002018-03-19T00:00:15.371+11:00LEAD EXPOSURE LINKED TO 412,000 PREMATURE DEATHS IN U.S. EACH YEAR<br /><em>Up to 412,000 deaths a year in the U.S. can be attributed to lead exposure, according to a new study published Monday in The Lancet Pubilc Health.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Of that figure, exposure to the toxic metal may be an "important, but largely overlooked" risk factor behind the 256,000 annual cardiovascular disease deaths in the country, the authors found.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>“Our study findings suggest that low-level environmental lead exposure is an important risk factor for death in the USA, particularly from cardiovascular disease," the paper states. "It is not surprising that lead exposure is overlooked; it is ubiquitous, but insidious and largely beyond the control of patients and clinicians."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>New research from @TheLancetPH: Historical #lead exposure may be linked to 256000 premature deaths from #CVD in adults the #USA each yearhttps://t.co/vGWjsnEhQk pic.twitter.com/Pq73QokDOa</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>— The Lancet (@TheLancet) March 12, 2018</em><br /><em>-----------------------------------------------------------------</em><br /><em>The researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to study the blood-lead levels of 14,289 people who were 20 or older between 1988 and 2011. Of the 4,422 people who died by the end of that period, those who had high lead levels (6.7 micrograms per deciliter) were at 37 percent greater risk of premature death from any cause and 70 percent times greater risk of cardiovascular death compared with people with lower lead levels (1.0 micrograms per deciliter).</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Based on these risk levels, the authors estimated that up to 18 percent of all deaths every year in the USA (or 412,000 out of 2.3 million annual mortalities) would be among people who had levels of lead above 1 micrograms per deciliter. Further, an estimated 28.7 percent of premature cardiovascular disease deaths (256,000 out of 892000) could be attributable to lead exposure.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Additionally, the authors suggested the current proportion of deaths in adults aged 44 years or older could have been prevented if historical exposure to lead had not occurred.</em><br /><a href="https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/64440/lead-exposure-linked-to-412000-premature-deaths-in-us-each.html">https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/64440/lead-exposure-linked-to-412000-premature-deaths-in-us-each.html</a><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 19th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-28209879535102515922018-03-18T01:00:00.000+11:002018-03-18T01:00:48.969+11:00Skripal, Novichok, Russia, Israel, Syria, MI6 and Salisbury<br /><em>The same people who assured you that <strong>Saddam Hussein</strong> had WMD’s now assure you Russian “novichok” nerve agents are being wielded by <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> to attack people on British soil. As with the Iraqi WMD dossier, it is essential to comb the evidence very finely. A vital missing word from<strong> Theresa May</strong>’s statement yesterday was “only”. She did not state that the nerve agent used was manufactured ONLY by Russia. She rather stated this group of nerve agents had been “developed by” Russia. Antibiotics were first developed by a Scotsman, but that is not evidence that all antibiotics are today administered by Scots.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The “novichok” group of nerve agents – a very loose term simply for a collection of new nerve agents the Soviet Union were developing fifty years ago – will almost certainly have been analysed and reproduced by Porton Down. That is entirely what Porton Down is there for. It used to make chemical and biological weapons as weapons, and today it still does make them in small quantities in order to research defences and antidotes. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian chemists made a&nbsp;</em><a href="https://alchetron.com/Novichok-agent"><em>lot of information</em></a><em>&nbsp;available on these nerve agents. And one country which has always manufactured very similar persistent nerve agents is Israel. This&nbsp;Foreign Policy&nbsp;magazine (a very establishment US publication)&nbsp;</em><a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/10/exclusive-does-israel-have-chemical-weapons-too/"><em>article on Israel</em></a><em>‘s chemical and biological weapon capability is very interesting indeed. I will return to Israel later in this article.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Incidentally, novichok is not a specific substance but a class of new nerve agents. Sources agree they were designed to be persistent, and of an order of magnitude stronger than sarin or VX. That is rather hard to square with the fact that thankfully nobody has died and those possibly in contact just have to wash their clothes.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>From Putin’s point of view, to assassinate Skripal now seems to have very little motivation. If the Russians have waited eight years to do this, they could have waited until after their World Cup.&nbsp;<strong>The Russians have never killed a swapped spy before</strong>. Just as diplomats, British and otherwise, are the most ardent upholders of the principle of diplomatic immunity, so security service personnel everywhere are the least likely to wish to destroy a system which can be a key aspect of their own personal security; quite literally spy swaps are their “Get Out of Jail Free” card. You don’t undermine that system – probably terminally – without very good reason.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It is worth noting that the “wicked” Russians gave Skripal a far lighter jail sentence than an American equivalent would have received. If a member of US Military Intelligence had sold, for cash to the Russians, the names of hundreds of US agents and officers operating abroad, the Americans would at the very least jail the person for life, and I strongly suspect would execute them. Skripal just received a jail sentence of 18 years, which is hard to square with the narrative of implacable vindictiveness against him. If the Russians had wanted to make an example, that was the time.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It is much more probable that the reason for this assassination attempt refers to something recent or current, than to spying twenty years ago.&nbsp;<strong>Were I the British police, I would inquire very closely into Orbis Intelligence</strong>.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>There is no doubt that Skripal was feeding secrets to MI6 at the time that <strong>Christopher Steele</strong> was an MI6 officer in Moscow, and at the the time that <strong>Pablo Miller</strong>, another member of Orbis Intelligence, was also an MI6 officer in Russia and directly recruiting agents. It is widely reported on the web and&nbsp;</em><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/world/sergei-skripal-spy-war/index.html"><em>in US media</em></a><em>&nbsp;that it was Miller who first recruited Skripal.</em><br /><blockquote><em>My own ex-MI6 sources tell me that is not quite true as Skripal was “walk-in”, but that Miller certainly was involved in running Skripal for a while. Sadly Pablo Miller’s LinkedIn profile has recently been deleted, but it is again widely alleged on the web that it showed him as a consultant for Orbis Intelligence and a consultant to the FCO and – wait for it – with an address in Salisbury.</em></blockquote><em>If anyone can recover that Linkedin entry do get in touch, though British Government agencies will have been active in the internet scrubbing.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It was of course Christopher Steele and Orbis Intelligence who produced for the Clinton camp the sensationalist dossier on Trump links with Russia – including the story of Trump paying to be urinated on by Russian prostitutes – that is a key part of the “Russiagate” affair gripping the US political classes. The extraordinary thing about this is that the Orbis dossier is obvious nonsense which anybody with a professional background can completely demolish, as</em><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/01/hitler-diaries-mark-ii-hope-changed-mattress/"><em>&nbsp;I did here</em></a><em>. Steele’s motive was, like Skripal’s in selling his secrets, cash pure and simple. Steele is a charlatan who knocked up a series of allegations that are either wildly improbable, or would need a high level source access he could not possibly get in today’s Russia, or both. He told the Democrats what they wish to hear and his audience – who had and still have no motivation to look at it critically – paid him highly for it.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>I do not know for certain that Pablo Miller helped knock together the Steele dossier on Trump, but it seems very probable given he also served for MI6 in Russia and was working for Orbis. And it seems to me even more probable that Sergei Skripal contributed to the Orbis Intelligence dossier on Trump. Steele and Miller cannot go into Russia and run sources any more, and never would have had access as good as their dossier claims, even in their MI6 days. The dossier was knocked up for huge wodges of cash from whatever they could cobble together. Who better to lend a little corroborative verisimilitude in these circumstances than their old source Skripal?</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Skripal was at hand in the UK, and allegedly even close to Miller in Salisbury. He could add in the proper acronym for a Russian committee here or the name of a Russian official there, to make it seem like Steele was providing hard intelligence. Indeed, Skripal’s outdated knowledge might explain some of the dossier’s more glaring errors.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>But the problem with double agents like Skripal, who give intelligence for money, is that they can easily become triple agents and you never know when a better offer is going to come along. When Steele produced his dodgy dossier, he had no idea it would ever become so prominent and subject to so much scrutiny. Steele is fortunate in that the US Establishment is strongly motivated not to scrutinise his work closely as their one aim is to “get” Trump. But with the stakes very high, having a very loose cannon as one of the dossier’s authors might be most inconvenient both for Orbis and for the Clinton camp.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>If I was the police, I would look closely at Orbis Intelligence.</em><br /><blockquote><em>To return to Israel. Israel has the nerve agents. Israel has Mossad which is extremely skilled at foreign assassinations. Theresa May claimed Russian propensity to assassinate abroad as a specific reason to believe Russia did it. Well Mossad has an even greater propensity to assassinate abroad. And while I am struggling to see a Russian motive for damaging its own international reputation so grievously, Israel has a clear motivation for damaging the Russian reputation so grievously. Russian action in Syria has undermined the Israeli position in Syria and Lebanon in a fundamental way, and Israel has every motive for damaging Russia’s international position by an attack aiming to leave the blame on Russia.</em></blockquote><em>Both the Orbis and Israeli theories are speculations. But they are no more a speculation,&nbsp;<strong>and no more a conspiracy theory, than the idea that Vladimir Putin secretly sent agents to Salisbury to attack Skripal with a secret nerve agent</strong>. I can see absolutely no reason to believe that is a more valid speculation than the others at this point.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>I am alarmed by the security, spying and armaments industries’ frenetic efforts to stoke Russophobia and heat up the new cold war. I am especially alarmed at the stream of cold war warrior “experts” dominating the news cycles. I write as someone who believes that agents of the Russian state did assassinate Litvinenko, and that the Russian security services carried out at least some of the apartment bombings that provided the pretext for the brutal assault on Chechnya. I believe the Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Georgia is illegal. On the other hand, in Syria Russia has saved the Middle East from domination by a new wave of US and gulf sponsored extreme jihadists.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The naive view of the world as “goodies” and “baddies”, with our own ruling class as the good guys, is for the birds. I witnessed personally in Uzbekistan the willingness of the UK and US security services to accept and validate intelligence they knew to be false in order to pursue their policy objectives. We should be extremely sceptical of their current anti-Russian narrative. There are many possible suspects in this attack.</em><br /><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/skripal-novichok-russia-israel-syria-mi6-and-salisbury/5632102">https://www.globalresearch.ca/skripal-novichok-russia-israel-syria-mi6-and-salisbury/5632102</a><br /><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-5525718532228199152018-03-18T00:45:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:45:09.804+11:00Return of the Neo-Cons: Mike Pompeo and the Death of Diplomacy<br /><em>Secretary Tillerson was far from an ideal choice, but his anointed successor at the State Department – Mike Pompeo – may ditch diplomacy all together and start a war!</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>We both attended West Point. That’s where the commonalities end. I’ve been a soldier opposed to (endless) war; he’ll be a statesman opposed to peace. That should give us cause for pause.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It is a sad day indeed when one finds himself pining for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. But that’s where we are. I never really bought into the whole success in profit-driven business equates to success in diplomacy thing. Besides, let us not forget that Tillerson </em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/state-departments-plan-for-staff-cuts-causing-new-worry-in-congress/2017/11/15/72576ac6-ca10-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.316ae4f3c8f6"><em>gutted</em></a><em> the State Department, failed to fill key posts, and fought to </em><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tillerson-defends-cuts-to-state-department-budget/"><em>cut</em></a><em> his own budget. That was shocking, especially given that the sitting Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, once </em><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mattis-state-department-funding-need-to-buy-more-ammunition-2017-2"><em>asserted</em></a><em>, back when he was a marine general, that if the State budget was cut, "he’d need to buy more bullets." Nonetheless, Tillerson is </em><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state/index.html"><em>out</em></a><em> and CIA director Mike Pompeo – a far more alarming choice – is nominated to replace him. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Maybe the notoriously thin-skinned president couldn’t abide being </em><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/tillerson-trump-moron/index.html"><em>called</em></a><em> a "moron" by a senior cabinet secretary. Still, publicly at least, the president seemed to </em><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378093-trump-says-he-didnt-really-discuss-ouster-with-tillerson"><em>indicate</em></a><em> that it was "serious policy differences" which led to the firing. Given that Secretary Tillerson regularly </em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-administration-tillerson-out-hawks-in-w513025"><em>tempered</em></a><em> Trump’s more extreme proposals – like tearing up the Iran deal, threatening "fire and fury" in North Korea, and backing the Saudi blockade of tiny Qatar – and that Mike Pompeo is a known Trump </em><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/ar-BBKaaqF?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=ientp"><em>supplicant</em></a><em>, that’s all the more disquieting.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The only bright spot in the move is that Trump decided not to elevate Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) – a reported frontrunner and notorious neoconservative hawk – to replace Pompeo at CIA. Nevertheless, Trump’s choice of Gina Haspel to take over the agency is potentially disturbing. Haspel served during the dark days of Bush-era torture; even notorious hawk John McCain (R-Az.) has </em><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378183-mccain-trumps-cia-pick-was-involved-in-one-of-the-darkest"><em>expressed</em></a><em> concern about her potential complicity in the torture regime, though a full accounting will no doubt come out in her confirmation hearings.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>So who is Mike Pompeo? The short answer: a startlingly </em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-administration-tillerson-out-hawks-in-w513025"><em>hawkish</em></a><em> Tea Party Republican oilman with a penchant for combative rhetoric and a near hysterical hatred for Iran. But he’s </em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/13/mike-pompeo-who-is-he-secretary-state-trump-new-rex-tillerson-from-cia"><em>smart</em></a><em> – valedictorian of his West Point class and a graduate of Harvard – and that makes him even more dangerous. His primary qualification, though, is his loyalty and propensity for mind-melding with his boss, Donald Trump. For the last year, he often personally delivered Trump’s presidential daily briefing (PDB) at the White House each morning and they agree on just about everything; as Trump </em><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-pompeo-profile-20180313-story.html"><em>says</em></a><em> of Pompeo: "we’re always on the same wavelength."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>What exactly can Americans expect from a Secretary Pompeo? It’s hard to know, for sure, but his past actions and statements offer plenty of hints. A neocon ideologue, he’ll no doubt be a savvy political actor; in a Washington where no one seems to remain for long in Donald Trump’s good graces, Pompeo has consistently impressed his boss. Last year, Harvard’s Stephen Walt </em><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/secretary-state-mike-pompeo-could-unite-bannon-loyalists-23307"><em>called</em></a><em> him "the most politically motivated CIA director since perhaps [Reagan-appointed] William Casey."</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>He’s also pretty fanatical on a range of civil liberties issues. Pompeo is a staunch supporter of domestic surveillance, and even </em><a href="http://www.arizonaherald.com/news/249508683/mike-pompeo-who-says-ed-snowden-should-receive-death-penalty-is-tapped-to-be-cia-director"><em>called</em></a><em> for the death penalty for Edward Snowden. Steven Aftergood, a director at the Federation of American Scientists </em><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/trump-said-to-select-kansas-congressman-pompeo-as-cia-director"><em>told</em></a><em> reporters that "Mr. Pompeo is literally an extremist." </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The bigger issue is Pompeo’s neoconservative predisposition for preventive war and expansive military intervention. He’s basically a charter member of the Iran-</em><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176289/tomgram%253A_danny_sjursen%252C_beating_the_war_drums..._again/"><em>hysteria</em></a><em>-club dominating the contemporary Republican (and sometimes Democratic) establishment. Pompeo wants to immediately tear up the Iran deal, which will leave the U.S. as the sole party to pull out of the seven nation accord. Back in 2014, when Pompeo was still a Kansas Congressman, he </em><a href="http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/sen-elect-tom-cotton-put-an-end-to-iran-nuclear-talks.html?utm_source=Trita+Parsi+Email+List&amp;utm_campaign=ff40f7b939-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f8832a7e78-ff40f7b939-256500349"><em>boasted</em></a><em> that it would take only "2000 sorties to destroy [i.e. bomb] the Iranian nuclear capacity." Well, Director Pompeo, what happens the day after the US starts a war with Iran? What are the second and third-order regional effects? None of that seems important to the likes of Pompeo; he wants war with Iran, and he might just get it.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Furthermore, while CIA Director, he </em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-administration-tillerson-out-hawks-in-w513025"><em>ordered</em></a><em> the release of files that purportedly proved collusion between Al Qaeda and Iran. Never mind that Bin Laden and the Islamic State were longtime antagonists on opposites sides of the regional Sunni-Shia divide. Pompeo knows what he’s doing. These were the same devious </em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/opinion/is-trump-going-to-lie-our-way-into-war-with-iran.html"><em>tricks</em></a><em> another neocon administration – that of George W. Bush – used to sell a deceitful invasion of Iraq. Soldiers like </em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Riders-Baghdad-Soldiers-Civilians/dp/1611687810"><em>mine</em></a><em> paid the price for that disaster on the streets of Baghdad. Pompeo’s a West Pointer; he should know that real American men and women will be the ones to die in the next reckless war – the one he seems to want in Iran.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>It is hard to say if America has ever had a Secretary of State more pugnacious and bellicose than the Secretary of Defense, but that’s where the country will likely be in 2018, with Mike Pompeo at the helm of State. Pompeo, it appears, wants war, but it is Mattis who truly knows war; and though they’re both rather hawkish in foreign affairs, my bet is on Mattis – the Marine Corps general, no less – to exercise more caution in a crisis.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>That, needless to say, is disturbing. America’s already got a Department of Defense. If Pompeo sits atop State, the US might as well ditch the veneer of diplomacy and rename the agency – call it the Department of War.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>[<b>Note:</b> The views expressed in this article are those of the author, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the US government.]</em><br /><br /><i>Danny Sjursen is a US Army officer and regular contributor to </i><a href="http://antiwar.com/"><i>Antiwar.com</i></a><i>. He served combat tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at his alma mater, West Point. </i><br /><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2018/03/15/return-of-the-neo-cons-mike-pompeo-and-the-death-of-diplomacy/">https://original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2018/03/15/return-of-the-neo-cons-mike-pompeo-and-the-death-of-diplomacy/</a><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-89410376073259433722018-03-18T00:30:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:30:07.390+11:00What Secretary of State Tillerson’s Firing Means - Paul Craig Roberts<br /><em>Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) says Tillerson’s firing indicates that the Trump administration is disintegrating. I understand why Senator Schumer sees it that way, expecially following all the other dismissals and resignations. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>I see it differently. The firing of Secretary of State Tillerson, the movement of CIA Director Pompeo to Secretary of State, and the promotion of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the secret CIA torture prisons in Thailand (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/cia-deputy-director-gina-haspel-torture-thailand.html), indicate that the military/security complex has closed its grip on the Trump regime. There will be no more talk of normalizing relations with Russia. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The combination of the Israel Lobby, the neoconservatives, and the military/security complex have proven to be too powerful for peace to be established between the two nuclear powers. If you look at Trump’s administration, the above three forces are those in charge. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Israel remains determined to use the US military to destabilize Syria and Iran in order to isolate Hezbollah and cut off the milita’s support and supplies. The neoconservatives both support Israel’s interest and their own desire for Washington’s hegemony over the world. The military/security complex intends to hold on to the “Russia threat” as a justification of its budget and power. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The presstitutes are in complete harmony with the scheme. Although Russiagate has been proven to be false charges orchestrated by the DNC, FBI, and CIA, the presstitutes continue to repeat the charges as if evidence exists that proves the charges to be true. The “stolen election” is fiction turned into fact. And now we have a new charge, that Putin ordered a former British spy in England to be eliminated while sitting on a park bench with the use of a highly unlikely form of military poison. The charge is preposterous, but that is not preventing the fiction from becoming fact. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Having served in Washington for a quarter century and having known members of the British government, I do not believe that any of them believe the Russiagate and Skripal poisoning stories. What is happening is that an agenda has taken precedence over truth. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>This is an extremely dangerous agenda. Russia’s new weapons easily give Russia military superiority over the US. As China and Iran see the situation similarly to the Russians, the US is greatly out-classed. Yet, Washington and its vassals persist in making violent and false charges and threats against Russia, Iran, and on occasion China. Russia, Iran, and China know that these charges are false. Confronting an endless string of false and hostile charges, they prepare for war. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The world is being driven to war, which would be nuclear, by a tiny minority: Israeli Zionists, neoconservatives, and the US military/security complex. We are witnessing the most reckless and irresponsible behavior in world history. Where are the voices against it?</em> <br /><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/13/secretary-state-tillersons-firing-means/">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/13/secretary-state-tillersons-firing-means/</a><br /><br /><strong>Related:</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><a href="http://govtslaves.info/2018/03/rand-paul-blasts-trump-for-appointing-war-loving-neocons-threatens-to-filibuster-nominees/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Rand Paul Blasts Trump for Appointing “War Loving” Neocons, Threatens to Filibuster Nominees"><strong>Rand Paul Blasts Trump for Appointing “War Loving” Neocons, Threatens to Filibuster Nominees</strong></a><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-69395262576150969782018-03-18T00:20:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:20:18.523+11:00Ray McGovern of VIPS explains how the CIA infiltrated the Media - Bill Casey 1981 quote<br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5KC3EpRhG8" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-48492235240333083352018-03-18T00:15:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:15:18.396+11:00Youtube Reveals Plan to Erase Conspiracy Theory Videos From Platform<br /><em>You have to understand what we're dealing with here, an extreme tyrant by the name of Susan Wojcicki.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Who is she?</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Her sister is Anne and Anne is married to Google co-founder, Sergey Brin. Susan is also worth ~$400 million -- and she's very smart, and she's been the CEO of Youtube since 2014. However, after the elections, the free speech mood over at YT changed and Susan promised to do something about it. She promised to crack down on fake news and also demonetize hate speech. Because the platform is so big, she deployed machine learning idiot robots to do this. The subsequent result was the complete destruction of the Youtube community. People who've made their lives on YT, professional vloggers, went from making hundreds of thousands&nbsp;to almost nothing at all. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ibankcoin/videos?view_as=subscriber"><em>The iBankCoin channel</em></a><em>, which is now suspended for posting "hate speech" in the form of a CNN interview, went from netting monthly revenues of $4,000 to a few hundred bucks. Lucky for me, I don't need that money.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>This is what Youtube suspended our account over...</em><br /><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-15/youtube-reveals-plan-erase-conspiracy-theory-videos-platform">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-15/youtube-reveals-plan-erase-conspiracy-theory-videos-platform</a><br /><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-4117552456806737142018-03-18T00:10:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:10:19.530+11:00Why Does Britain First Exist? - Sargon<br /><em>We must examine why Britain First had two million followers on social media. Simply killing their accounts will not make the problems go away.</em><br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uyMaCoy-nyg" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />If people disagree with the&nbsp;dominant (Western liberal/free speech/secular) culture of the&nbsp;country they live in, then they need to either change their minds or leave. <br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-8858153691349332922018-03-18T00:00:00.000+11:002018-03-18T00:00:23.510+11:00Keiser Report (E1201): Siren Song of YouTube<br /><em>Max and Stacy discuss when success still means poverty . . . in the new gig economics of social media ‘fame’ and what Travis Bickle’s Uber would look like if he were economically ignorant enough to drive one. Max continues his interview with professor and author Dr. Michael Hudson of Michael-Hudson.com about tariffs, trade deals, NAFTA, AI apocalypse and Karl Marx.</em> <br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iGWxthnRDOs" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />The second half of the show is excellent and it points out that countries like the USA got rich in a protectionist environment with a MIXED ECONOMY where the Government (for a long period of time) ran utilities, public services and infrastructure, while the remainder of the economy was free market.<br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 18th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-51596292191195694102018-03-17T01:00:00.000+11:002018-03-17T01:00:07.904+11:00Will Russia Wake Up? - Paul Craig Roberts<br /><em>Russians are having a difficult time comprehending their Western enemy or even understanding that Russia has an enemy that seeks the destruction of Russia. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Has it occurred to Russia that it is very strange that the UK, a country of no military significance, a country that could be completely destroyed forever in a few minutes by Russia, would concoct false charges against the Russian government, announce these charges publicly without providing any evidence whatsoever, bring the unsupported charges to the UN, issue an ultimatum to Russia, dispel Russian diplomats and seize Russian assets on the basis of mere allegations, all the while refusing any evidence and any cooperation with Russia, as required by law, in the investigation of the charges? </em><br /><em>&nbsp;</em><br /><em>Russians, both government, media and youth brainwashed by American propaganda and the Washington-funded NGOS that the Russian government permits to operate against itself in Russia, seem to think that the many accusations and threats issued against Russia are some kind of mistake that can be rectified by recourse to evidence and law. Apparently, after all these years the Russians still do not understand that Washington and its vassals have no interest whatsoever in facts or law.</em><br /><em>&nbsp; </em><br /><em>At the UN the Russian ambassador, in response to the evidence-free accusation by the UK prime minister that the Russian government had used a military-grade nerve agent to attempt to kill two people on an English park bench, went through all the legal reasons, including the requirement of collaboration with Russia in examining the evidence, to establish that the UK accusation was in violation of law and unsupported by any evidence.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Why do the Russians think the British government cares a hoot about law or evidence? Are the Russians really this brainwashed about the West?</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The British government of Tony Blair cooperated with the George W. Bush regime in propagating the lie that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.” This lie was used to invade and to destroy Iraq and to leave the country 15 years later in chaos. </em><br /><em>&nbsp;</em><br /><em>The British government also supported the lies about Gadaffi in Libya and participated in overthrowing the Libyan government. The British government also supported the lie that Iran had a nuclear weapons program. There was never any evidence, but evidence was of no interest. An agenda was in motion, and the agenda was independent of evidence.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Although the British Parliament voted down British participation in Obama’s planned invasion of Syria, the current British government supports the lie that Assad is using chemical weapons “against his own people.”</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>By now one would think that Russians, both government, media, and public, would understand that all the West is capable of is to lie. The purpose of the lies is to demonize Russia and to set up Russia for military attack. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>But somehow Russians can’t get the message. Russians think it is all some kind of mistake that facts and legal processes and diplomacy can clear up. “Please just listen to us, we can clear up all the misconceptions!” As if the West cares. Washington wants “the misconceptions.” That is why Washington creates them.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The inability of Russians to understand the West, which Russia stupidly wants to join, is the reason that World War 3 is near at hand.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>What if, instead of reciting the legal process and the law governing it that the UK PM refused to follow before publicly accusing Russia without the presentation of any evidence, The Russian UN Ambassador had simply said: “If the UK exists tomorrow, it will be due entirely to the forbearance of the Russian government.”</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>By relying on law, about which no Western country gives a hoot, the Russian UN ambassador permitted Washington’s French puppet and other of Washington’s European puppet states to say that they supported the British charges against Russia despite the absence of evidence. Perhaps the Russians noticed that none of those European governments required any evidence that Russia was responsible. All that was required was the accusation.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>In the exceptional, indispensable Western World ruled by Washington, accusation alone is proof of Russian mendacity. When British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn asked PM May if she actually had any real evidence that Russia had tried to kill the former British double-agent, Corbyn was shouted down not only by the corrupt Conservatives but also by members of the Labour Party that he heads. How much more evidence does Russia need that facts are not important to the West?</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Will Russia wake up? Or will its demented desire to be part of the West leave Russians unprepared for Washington’s nuclear strike, which is coming.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>What if the Russian government simply told Washington: “If you or your terrorist mercenaries attack Syrian forces, we will eliminate your presence in the Middle East and Israel as well.” This is something that Russia can do at the drop of a hat.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>What would the British and Washington do, other than wet their pants? Clearly, they would get the message and decide that peace is a better idea.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The Russian government simply does not understand that Washington regards Russian appeals to diplomacy, law, facts, evidence, as signs of extreme weakness and lack of confidence. Washington and its puppet states do not need any facts. They have an agenda. By calling for facts, the Russians show their weakness. </em><br /><em>&nbsp;</em><br /><em>The Russian display of weakness encourages Washington’s aggression. Does Russia’s desire to be a part of the West exceed its desire for national survival?</em><br /><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/14/will-russia-wake/">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/14/will-russia-wake/</a><br /><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-82601071110526947682018-03-17T00:50:00.000+11:002018-03-17T00:50:26.421+11:00Putin Confronts Megyn Kelly - Brother Nathanael <br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0HOYRLzk4BU" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-39594325307092296352018-03-17T00:45:00.000+11:002018-03-17T01:45:20.280+11:00Former CIA Officer Exposes Clinton Charity Fraud as Biggest Scandal in US History<br /><em>Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says the reason for&nbsp;<strong>all the crime and treason at the FBI and DOJ all boils down to one thing – the Clinton's so-called “charity.”</strong></em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Shipp explains,<strong>&nbsp;“Hillary Clinton was running and is running a global financial criminal syndicate.&nbsp; She was using these secret servers to conduct Clinton financial money laundering business."</strong></em><br /><blockquote><em>"The shocking thing about that is all the former directors of the CIA that have come out to support her, from Clapper to Brennan to Morell to Robert Gates supporting her being elected, knew about this criminal syndicate.&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Comey was protecting it. &nbsp;Lynch was protecting it.&nbsp; Weissmann was protecting it.&nbsp; And that is the big why.&nbsp; What’s she got on these people?</strong>&nbsp; Are they financial ties?&nbsp; They had to be aware of this, especially the counter-intelligence units.&nbsp; We know it was hacked into by foreign intelligence services because it was just hanging out there.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hillary Clinton was running a secret server outside the Department of State for the purposes of laundering money through the criminal Clinton Foundation.</strong>”</em></blockquote><em><strong>Are the crimes and treason of the Clinton Foundation the anvil that is about to drop?</strong>&nbsp;Shipp says,</em><br /><blockquote><em>“<strong>It’s not just an anvil, I think it is a mountain and the nexus of everything.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;This “Clinton Global Initiative” (CGI) is worldwide, and it’s been out there for a couple of decades. &nbsp;It has now intertwined former Directors of the CIA and FBI.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>George Soros is a part of it.&nbsp; It’s connected to all kinds of global financial institutions...&nbsp;</strong></em></blockquote><blockquote><strong><em>It is at least a $100 billion...&nbsp;</em></strong></blockquote><blockquote><em>All these people protecting and defending Hillary Clinton and knowing about her criminal syndicate, this goes into&nbsp;<strong>the so-called 'Deep State' of our government, and it is connected, involved and intertwined in the global criminal crime syndicate called the Clinton Foundation.</strong>&nbsp; This is probably going to be the biggest scandal in U.S. history–once it’s busted.&nbsp; I think they are quietly working on it now, and I think they have been for the last year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>It is so huge the arrests and indictments could cause a Constitutional crisis with some people being removed.&nbsp; Maybe that’s why they are moving slowly.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;It all comes back down to the Clinton Foundation and the criminal syndicate.”</em></blockquote><em><strong>Is former President Obama involved with the Clinton crime syndicate?</strong>&nbsp;Shipp says,</em><br /><em></em><br /><blockquote><em>“<strong>Yes, I am absolutely convinced of it.&nbsp; George Soros gave $30 million to Obama’s campaign.&nbsp; Then he gave $27.1 million to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;Both Obama and Clinton are tied directly into George Soros.&nbsp; Obama was put into office with millions of dollars that came out of nowhere.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>Yes,&nbsp;<strong>he’s part of this cabal.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;Yes, he’s part of this global syndicate, and in my opinion, the subversion of our government.”</em></blockquote><em><strong>In closing, Shipp contends,“There could be a Constitutional crisis</strong>&nbsp;in that we could see Congressmen, Senators, former Directors of the FBI and the CIA perp walked after they receive charges."</em><br /><a href="https://russia-insider.com/en/former-cia-officer-exposes-clinton-charity-fraud-biggest-scandal-us-history/ri22753">https://russia-insider.com/en/former-cia-officer-exposes-clinton-charity-fraud-biggest-scandal-us-history/ri22753</a><br /><br />The reason why it is so difficult to prosecute the Clintons and others involved in these high level crimes is that to do so means death. These crooks will kill&nbsp;those who act against them,&nbsp;plus the family and friends of those that act against them. <br /><br />So rather than enacting actual prosecutions, some kind of deal will likely be struck that keeps&nbsp;them out of jail, and in power. The only real hope for change is&nbsp;to engage them using draconian measures, to arrest them all in one foul swoop and hold them in isolation until the time of trial (or to hold them indefinitely without trial). The public would need to be told why such measures are being taken.<br /><br />After such a round up the Government would then need to be transformed so that it becomes highly transparent, where all meetings are filmed, where lobbyists are kept at arms length (where it is illegal to have unrecorded meetings), and where all official documents are open to the public. The Government needs to be kept small and controllable&nbsp;- literally turning the halls of power into a house with glass walls. <br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-62897434995375807742018-03-17T00:40:00.000+11:002018-03-17T01:25:38.314+11:00The Tommy Robinson Interview That Got Brittany Pettibone Banned From The U.K. <br /><em>This is not mine, but a mirror. I hold no copyright nor any ownership of this video, but I do think think the information (especially on state persecution of individuals) is critical for all informed citizens to understand. Especially, the weight of the of the entire government apparatus used against individuals to dissuade uncomfortable truths to be made public.</em> <br /><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YkqdusRWA_g" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-12138900047452667452018-03-17T00:30:00.000+11:002018-03-17T00:30:31.074+11:00European Parliament on Right-Wingers Banned From UK - Lauren Southern <br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/odGiYJdFtE0" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883679973216384639.post-77638992827896752352018-03-17T00:25:00.000+11:002018-03-17T00:25:20.386+11:00Story of Why David Icke Met an 'Anti-Terrorism Officer' and a Council 'Anti-Extremist Co-Ordinator'<br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/izwMz7mJ9pE" width="450"></iframe><br /><br />[Posted at the <a href="http://spookyweather.blogspot.com.au/">SpookyWeather</a> blog, March 17th, 2018.]SpookyOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04247845234734644470noreply@blogger.com0